It turns out that Prime Minister Prim dared to put forth such an ambitious five-year development plan, having considered it realistically and prepared sufficiently for contingencies.
In 1873, the Spanish Government's total financial expenditure for the year soared to 743.3 million Pesseta. Since the Spanish Revolution, the Spanish Government had not faced such high financial expenditures.
However, compared to this year's total financial budget, 743.3 million Pesseta is not considered a large amount.
Because this year, the total government fiscal budget is as high as 897.2 million Pesseta, an increase of more than 150 million from last year.
Such ample fiscal budget indeed instantly alleviated the worries of Cabinet Ministers and made the ministers of the second Cabinet Government sufficiently optimistic about completing the second five-year development plan.
